(We're at that time of the year when I'm never sure whether to take anything on the Internet seriously, but since this affects me personally, I'll go ahead and post a serious response.)
Adrian Bunk <b...@debian.org> writes: > first of all thanks a lot for running. > Both of you consider outreach important. > People not drinking alcohol are half of all adults in the world, but > we are under-represented in free software. I'm not sure it's possible to know that. It's not very visible, and most of us who don't drink don't particularly draw attention to it. FWIW, I've never had even a moment of awkwardness around Debian or Debian events (or, for that matter, around Silicon Valley, although I avoid companies that seem to be more of a frat than a workplace) from not drinking. I usually just get something non-alcoholic or note that I don't drink, and no one has ever cared. There are, of course, social activities that seem primarily focused on getting drunk together, and I skip out on those because it's not particularly fun to be the sober person around a bunch of drunk people, but that's not any different than skipping the marathon runs or the bicycling or the football games or any other social activity that I don't personally enjoy. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
